Mindful of the economy, most of our selections are under $25, and quite a few are under $15.

In fact, you can give a food lover something special and delicious for less than $10. It’s not the size of the gift: It’s how yummy and memorable it is.

All the items on are list are foods and beverages that have delighted us, and that we’re personally giving as holiday gifts.

Just click on the links in the article and do enjoy easy armchair shopping.

A great stocking stuffer under $10.
Photo by Corey Lugg | THE NIBBLE.

This tree can be eaten after the holidays.
Photo courtesy of
MiniatureChristmasTrees.com.

• Use them to decorate tables and add fragrance to rooms during the holidays and throughout the winter.
• Why not augment the Christmas tree with miniature tree emissaries in other rooms?

The rosemary, of course, can (and should) be snipped and used to flavor and garnish dishes when the season is over.

While it looks lovely indoors year-round, you can plant the tree outside. And, it makes a charming holiday gift.

It’s a light, flaky and tender pastry made by mixing flour, salt, chilled butter (or other fat) and water to form a dough. This is the process to make short pastry as well, however with puff pastry, the dough is then layered with butter, rolled out and folded into thirds. This process, which is repeated 6 to 8 times, produces a pastry comprising hundreds of layers of dough and butter. When baked, the moisture in the butter creates steam, causing the dough to puff and separate into hundreds of extremely thin and delicate, flaky layers.

Puff pastry is used for delicate pastry like cream puffs, éclairs, napoleons and some danish pastries; for sweet and savory pies and vol-au-vents; for cookies such as palmiers; and for breakfast breads such as croissants and pain au chocolat. It is also used as a wrapping pastry for dishes en croûte.

• If you’re hungry for pastry right now, head over to THE NIBBLE’s Gourmet Pies & Pastry Section and take a bite of the product reviews, recipes and our fab Pie & Pastry Glossary.
• Learn how to make puff pastry from scratch from pastry chef Jean-Yves Charon.
• Make cream puffs with this recipe from chocolatier Michael Recchiuti.